[PLUG] Donald... & "Would like to get operating B4 Sep. 20"

[Kyle Accardi]

da.haole.boy wrote:
> Belarc's Advisor says my sound card is Creative's AWE64 16-bit Audio 
> (SB16 compatible) with AWE64 Wavetable MIDI (AWE32 compatible).  I 
> believe this is a PCI bus card, but the only options I saw when in the 
> post install were ISA & something other than PCI (that dis ol' dog can't 
> remember).  What need I do to configure this?

I wish Red Hat would drag its sound config tool into this century.  It's not 
rocket science from a programmatic point-of-view and would make everyone so 
freaking happy.

Try this,
$ lspci

you might see something like this,
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)

so try, (as root)
	# modprobe emu10k1

if there are no complaints, that should have loaded the emu10k1 module plus 
the ones it relies on.  To confirm, list the loaded modules,
	$ lsmod

and look for a chain like this,
emu10k1                64320   2 (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13248   0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound                  71532   0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore               6468   7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]

Now cd /usr/share/sounds and type ls, pick a .wav file that looks good and type
	$ play phone.wav

or whatever.

If all this worked, you're happy and all you need to do is add this line to 
your /etc/modules.conf
	alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1

If something along the way choked, let us know and we'll go from there.

Cheers,
Kyle Accardi